Reactor Free Short Fiction 2021
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Free short stories and novellas published on Reactor (formerly tor.com). Available for reading online on the Reactor Magazine.
Since launching in 2008, Tor.com’s short fiction program has been producing touching, funny, and thought-provoking stories, and this year was no different! In 2021, we published 15 original short stories, another 15 novelettes, plus one novella. These ran the gamut from hard science fiction to epic fantasy, from horror to dystopia, from fairy tales to space opera. We’ve rounded them all up below, and you can also find Tordotcom Publishing’s impressive output of novellas and novels here.
We are tremendously proud of our authors, illustrators, and editors for creating such wonderful short fiction this year. We hope that you will nominate your favorites for the Hugos, Nebulas, and other upcoming awards which honor outstanding works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror—but most of all, we hope that you have enjoyed reading these stories as much as we have!
 A Better Way of Saying
| 3.2 | 5 reads | |
 Across the Dark Water
| 3.33 | 6 reads | |
 An Easy Job
| 4 | 5 reads | |
 Annie Without Crow
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Aptitude
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
 Baby Teeth
| 4.5 | 4 reads | |
 Black Leg
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Blood in the Thread
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre
| 4.6 | 5 reads | |
 Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels
| 4.14 | 7 reads | |
 L'Esprit de L'Escalier
| 4.63 | 10 reads | |
 Let All the Children Boogie
| 4.33 | 3 reads | |
 Masquerade Season
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
 Now We Paint Worlds
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 Questions Asked in the Belly of the World
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Ripple Effects
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Sand
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 #Selfcare
| 3.43 | 7 reads | |
 Shards
| 5 | 1 read | |
 Skin Deep
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Small Monsters
| 4.67 | 3 reads | |
 #Spring Love, #Pichal Pairi
| 4 | 1 read | |
 The Far Side of the Universe
| 3 | 1 read | |
 The Future Library
| 4.33 | 11 reads | |
 The Lay of Lilyfinger
| 5 | 2 reads | |
 The Red Mother
| 4.33 | 3 reads | |
 The Station of the Twelfth
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Tinder Box
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 The Tyger
| 3 | 1 read | |
 The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie
| 3.5 | 5 reads |